1. Putting Your Garden To Bed

2. Why I Love Gardening

3. Why Garden ? Know where your food comes from. Save money.
Garden for Exercise.
Garden to learn.
Garden to be creative
Eat Healthy

4. Start With A Plan For Next Season
Record you successes and failures.
Map out next years garden.
Now is the time to expand.

5. Measure your garden space.
Lay out design on graph paper or computer.

6. Have soil tested for Ph level best between 6.0 & 6.8 Purdue Extension

7. Extending Your Crops October 15th First Frost Date
In early fall, it pays to keep an eye on nighttime temperatures. Don't caught off guard by frost. Make sure to get the last of your crops harvested in time.
Light Frost - Temperatures degrees F  Hard Frost - Temperatures below 28 degrees F.

8. Not worth extending
Likely damaged by light frost: Beans,basil, cucumbers, eggplants, muskmelon, okra, peppers, pumpkins, summer squash, sweet corn, tomatoes, watermelon, and winter squash.

9. Good To Extend
Can withstand light frost: Artichokes, beets, carrots, cauliflower, celery, Chinese cabbage, endive, lettuce, parsnips, peas, Swiss chard, escarole, arugula, bok choy, mache, and radicchio.

10. Really Good To Extend
Can withstand hard frost: Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, collards, kale, kohlrabi, mustard, onions, parsley, peas, radishes, spinach, turnips, leeks, and sorrel.

12. Tips For Season Extenders
Make sure to water under cover.
Take off on nice days.
Anchor well for windy days.
Try to keep it from touching leaves and transferring cold to plant.
Low to the ground plants do better.

13. Harvest All tender vegetables before first frost.
Winter Squash can stand a few light frost
Leave carrots, garlic, horseradish, leeks, parsnips, radishes, and turnips in the garden for harvesting through early winter.
Mark the rows with tall stakes so that you can find them in snow, and cover them with a heavy layer of mulch to keep the ground from freezing.

14. Planting Fall Garlic
Purchase bulbs to plant in October from a seed/plant company; not from grocery store!
Choose full sun location
Weed area and amend soil with compost
Separate cloves and plant them pointed end up, 2 inches deep and 6 inches apart

15. Care for Perennials
Asparagus -Cut to 2 inch stubs after frost, Add 4 to 6 inches mulch
Rhubarb - Top dress with composted manure
Strawberries - Mulch with straw or organic materials 4” deep after soil freezes
Raspberries/blackberries - In winter, remove floricanes which have borne fruit
Blueberries - Protect with pine bark mulch, rotted sawdust, or compost around the base of the bush
Protect all perennial vegetables from freezing weather with mulch around the base of plants.

16. Tag hard to find perennials

17. Cleaning Up Remove any diseased or insect infested plants.
Remove weeds with seeds.
Remove Tomatoes & Squash plants.
Leave the rest !

18. Cover Up Leaves, old or shredded work best. Grass clippings Straw
Manure
Compost ( After first hard frost )
Cover crops

19. Use cardboard under leaves

20. Expanding or New Garden Call 811

21. Expanding your garden

22. Lasagna Garden

23. Tilling a new garden. Till deep 8” to 12” in booth directions
Clean out any roots and weeds
Add soil amendments and till in
Rake out level
Cover-up
Tilling a new garden.

24. Raised Beds

27. Tools Drain all garden hoses and store. Clean-up garden tools
Treat steel with Beeswax or WD-40
Treat wood handles with Beeswax, or Lemon Oil
Get tools sharpened and do repairs

28. Run gas out or use gas stabilizer

29. Time to relax until seed ordering time

30. Resources Purdue Extension Cornell Extension